Boast Quotes

• We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Strength, Respect, Patriotic

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.17

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• Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Inspirational, Business, Loyal Customers

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• The only sure way of avoiding these evils [vanity and boasting] is never to speak of yourself at all. But when, historically, youare obliged to mention yourself, take care not to drop one single word that can directly or indirectly be construed as fishing for applause.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Vanity, Fishing, Evil

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• Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.

  William Shakespeare

  Greatness, Thinking, Coke

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• I know them, yea,
  And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple;
  Scambling, out-facing, fashion-mong'ring boys,
  That lie, and cog, and flout, deprave, and slander,
  Go antickly, and show outward hideousness,
  And speak off half a dozen dangerous words,
  How they might hurt their enemies, if they durst;
  And this is all.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Hurt, Lying

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1858). “Much ado about nothing. Love's labour's lost. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming of the shrew. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night”, p.71

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• Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Acceptance, Tolerance, Assuming

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• I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

  Don Marquis

  Blood, Literature, Too Much

  Don Marquis (2006). “The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel”, p.136, Penguin

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• Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt their own actions.

  Aeschines

  Real, Men, Vaunt

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• Tis the ignorant who boast.

  Elisabeth of Wied

  Ignorance, Self Confidence, Ignorant

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• Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

  Edward Young

  Dignity, Ends

  Edward Young (1813). “The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts”, p.236

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• Only one man has the right to boast, and that's the man who never does.

  Evan Esar

  Men, Doe, Bragging

  Evan Esar (1978). “The Comic Encyclopedia: A Library of the Literature and History of Humor Containing Thousands of Gags, Sayings, and Stories”, Doubleday Books

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• Men are often so foolish as to boast and value themselves upon their passions, even those that are most vicious. But envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that no one every ever had the confidence to own it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Men, Envy

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• Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Humility, Hype

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.110, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.

  Horatio Nelson

  Night, Order, Years

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• Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

  Bernard Berenson

  Hope, Despair, Cry

  Bernard Berenson, Umberto Morra Di Lavriano (1963). “Colloqui con Berenson”

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  It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

  Richard Dawkins

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

  "The Richard Dimbleby Lecture: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder". Lecture, BBC1 Television, November 12, 1996.

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• Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

  Seneca the Younger

  Ancestry, Descent, Brag

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing can be more true, than that the greatest Boasters have the least of what they pretend to.

  Eliza Haywood

  Boasters

  Eliza Haywood (2004). “Fantomina and Other Works”, p.163, Broadview Press

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• Overconfidence comes from fear and doubt, and you boast an ego when you're feeling less than.

  Nikki Sixx

  Ego, Feelings, Doubt

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• Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.

  Diogenes

  Ego, Different, Armour

  "Anthology (Book 3)". Book by Joannes Stobaeus, 1536.

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• Fools carry their daggers in their open mouths.

  Josh Billings

  Mouths, Daggers, Fool

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• Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio - empty boasting of American power, American virtue, American know-how - has dominated our foreign relations now for some decades. Here at home - within the family, so to speak - our attitude to our culture expresses a superficially different spirit, the spirit of petulance. Never before, perhaps, has a culture been so fragmented into groups, each full of its own virtue, each annoyed and irritated at the others.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Attitude, Home, Two

  "The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations" by Robert Andrews, Columbia University Press, (p. 207), 1993.

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• The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.

  Kim Il-sung

  Hate, War, People

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,
  His first best country ever is at home.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Home, Patriotic

  The Traveller l. 73 (1764)

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• Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just contempt of an enemy can alone arise in those who feel that they are superior to their opponent by the prudence of their measures.

  Thucydides

  Successful, Enemy, Coward

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